https://www.ianwelsh.net/the-logic-of-bootlickers-is-the-logic-of-too-many-americans/
This is sweet and lovely in the purity of its boot-licking authoritarianism:
BELOW IS A RECREATION OF A TWEET:
Repeat after me:
I am not smarter than Joe Biden.
I am not smarter than Kamala Harris.
I am not smarter than Nancy Pelosi.
I am not smarter than James Carville.
But if I l stand back and watch and learn,
I will be smarter than I am.
The account then goes on to insult those who do not worship at the Biden altar.
The authoritarian personality is
simple: it slurps up; kicks down. You know the type. You’ve seen them
wherever you’ve worked, and you loathe them.
What is true is that Biden, Harris and Pelosi people are good at politics. They are good at seeking and getting political office.
But this is a category error; a profoundly stupid and harmful one.
First, this says nothing about their intelligence. Trump became President, is he smarter than you? (Or, if you’re dumb, smarter than many philosophers, scientists and so on who never earn any political office?)
What about George Bush Jr. smarter than you?
These people are good at getting political office, that doesn’t mean they are good at anything else. Pelosi is good at raising money and intra-caucus politics, but the House Democrats haven’t had a great electoral record while lead by her. She also passed almost all of Trump’s bills, including terrible ones like massive tax cuts and so on. She has renewed the Patriot Act multiple times. She refused to reign in George Bush when she got a majority in 2006.
She may be a good politician, but so what?
Harris did terribly in the primaries. She attacked Joe Biden as a segregationist (he was) and earned the VP slot, as best I can tell, by a campaign of backstabbing all the other possible candidates. She helped keep people known to be innocent in prison when a prosecutor.
Biden, in addition to being a segregationist, was one of the main Democratic boosters of the Iraq war. He was a driving force behind the bankruptcy bill which made it impossible to to discharge student debt. The Patriot Act was based on a bill he tried to pass in the 90s. He threatened Cuba with devastation if they dared give Snowden asylum. He’s apparently a great boss and a loving family man, but he’s filth. He’s also a known plagiarist.
Being able to get political power implies nothing more than an ability to get political power. Becoming rich implies nothing more than an ability to become rich.
Being good at A does not mean you are good at B to Z.
It certainly doesn’t mean your getting political power or money is good for anyone else. In most cases, the rise of most billionaires has been bad for other people. They have made money because they found a way to impoverish other people. Of course, there are exceptions, but they are exceptions.
Grow some self-respect and a spine. Your leaders are only better than you in one sense: they are better predators than you are.
“Oh, I so admire the wolf,” simpered the sheep.
In fact, much of why you aren’t them is because you have morals. You aren’t willing to lock up people who know are innocent, like Kamala. You aren’t willing to destroy a foreign country and kill a million people like Biden. You wouldn’t go along with Trump’s massive tax cuts like Pelosi.
You have some ethics; some morality. You wouldn’t run a huge scheme to defraud millions of people and/or steal their homes like almost everyone senior on Wall Street. There are limits on the evil you are willing to do for money or power, and that means, in America, you can’t have either.
Whenever someone who has ethics gets anywhere near power, (Corbyn or Sanders) everything possible is done to destroy them. The media lied over 75% about Corbyn. Every single candidate dropped out in a period of a day to deny Sanders the Democratic nomination; an effort coordinated by Obama (who may well be smarter than you, and whose evil was carefully concealed behind his smiling sociopathy.)
The elites have spent the last 50 or
so years driving 97% of Americans into the dirt, and rewarding
themselves with billions. They are predators, and nothing else. You are
the sheep, and the cops and military are the sheepdogs: still animals,
and discarded the moment they aren’t useful. (Check those military
veteran homeless stats.)
Biden, Harris and Pelosi (who cares about Carville?) aren’t smarter than you, odds are, and unless you’re Stalin reborn, they’re worse people than you in every way except their ability to get and hold power and use it against the American people and foreigners.
Hopefully they’ll be less evil rulers than Trump (though note, he didn’t start any new wars), but that’s not a bar.
Have some self respect. Your system elects not the best of you, but the worst.
Thinking the worst are the best: that’s the problem. They’ve indoctrinated you like farm animals “they feed us, and I’m sure the beating are because they love us, and I’m sure when they loaded Thelma and Fred and George on the truck last week and they never came back, well they were taking them to a better place.”
Except you don’t even get that good a deal, since they’re happy to see you starve and don’t try and heal you when you’re sick.
Grow up.
These people feed on you, and that’s all you are to them.
